Garnish Your Heavy Eating With Some Light Reading

We have an increasingly obese population, but at least it’s a well-informed obese population. A survey by ORC International finds 75 percent of Americans saying they read the nutrition labels on packaged foods; 74 percent claim to understand most or all of the information these labels give. Women are more likely than men to read the data (82 percent vs. 68 percent); consumers age 55 and older are more likely to do so than those under 55 (82 percent vs.